JibberBook is an open source Ajaxed guestbook application built with PHP5.

It stores the data in a XML file (optional MySQL support) and provides an easy to use interface.

For security, JibberBook uses:

• HTML Purifier (see WRD post) for filtering inputs against XSS attacks.
• Akismet for spam protection so users won’t need to enter captcha information.

This PHP guestbook application uses Mootools and it is unobtrusive (it will work even if the JavaScript is disabled).

FameID Menu is an advanced Flash accordion menu.

It uses XML to store the data, almost every setting is configurable and has a submenu feature which is kinda unique.

Configuration options of this Flash XML accordion menu:

• Background images of any menu items
• Dimensions of the whole menu
• Dimensions of the menu items when they are active (unfolded)
• Transparency animation levels of menu items
• Almost any setting for each menu item, such as colour, position, size, transparency etc.
• Menu items’ header texts and link URLs
• Choice of targeting simple URLs, frames or named windows
• Addition of submenus to any menu’s item using XML
• The look of submenu’s background panels
• Speed of animation
• Custom images for submenu’s button images
• Ability to always display menu item’s text headers or only display them when the item is active

Embedding a content inside websites is very common with the increasing web based applications like Youtube, Flickr, Pownce etc.

oEmbed is an embedding API which aims to standardize embedding interfaces of every application.

To clear, normally if you want to use API’s of Youtube and Flickr, they will be providing you different data structures of every query you make. With oEmbed, the structures of returned results (XML and JSON) are standard.

Providers who support oEmbed in their applications are currently:

• Flickr
• Viddler
• Qik
• Pownce
• Revision3
• Hulu

If you are embedding content from these providers, taking a look at oEmbed will definitely save your development time.

This is a very good looking Flash news slider (AS3 code) which uses XML for fetching the data.

The Flash slider simply displays an image and a descriptive text with a link to the URL wanted. The slider can be controlled via the next-previous & pause buttons.

You can find the steps for creating this Flash news slider as a tutorial and download the source files.

Design of the slider is inspired from the LaNacion.com website.

Document management & versioning is vital when reaching data quickly, specially, in multi-user environments.

OpenKM is a Web 2.0 style, multiplatform, open source, Ajaxed document management application which is built with usability in mind.

Thanks to its elegant and intuitive interface, OpenKM transforms complex operations into easy tasks. It allows the storage, classification and use of all kind of files and documents within an user friendly framework.

One of the more relevant functions to mention is the indexing of the most common types of files: text, Office, Office 2007, OpenOffice, PDF, HTML, XML, MP3, JPEG, etc. Its powerful search motor indexes all documents making it easy to find any information.

Some features of OpenKM

• Drag and drop
• Document control version
• Search by content and metadata
• LDAP or DBMS integration
• Public API by Webservices
• Store on any DBMS
• More than 8 languages

It is a time consuming process to create an admin interface with standard functions such as add-edit-delete-update again and again.

ActiveScaffold, a Ruby On Rails plugin handles all the ActiveRecords smartly. It adds add-edit-delete-update functionality with an Ajaxed interface & sorting, searching and pagination support.

ActiveScaffold features:

• AJAXified table interface for creating, updating, and deleting objects
• Automatic handling of ActiveRecord associations
• Sorting, Search and Pagination
• Graceful JavaScript degradation
• RESTful API support (XML/YAML/JSON)
• Sexy CSS styling and theming support
• More extension points than you can shake a stick at
• Guaranteed to work on Firefox 1+, IE 6+ and Safari 2+
• Released under the MIT License, the same one as Rails itself, so you can use it freely in your commercial applications.

Phormer is an open source PHP photo gallery that helps you store, organize and trim your photos online.

This photo gallery application uses XML for all the data including photos, comments and settings and does not require MySQL.

With an easy web-based install, Phormer has features like:

• Categorization (by date, subject..)
• Standards-based XHTML output
• Making any content private
• Photos can be set to be called from another server
• Ajax upload manager
• Ability to create a thumb image of your own selection
• 10+ themes
• RSS feeds
• Advanced commenting
• EXIF metadata reader
• Statistics
• Mass upload from a ZIP file
• Slideshow

Sphinx is a standalone search engine application that can be integrated with your data sources to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions.

To clear how powerful it is, Sphinx is already used in BlogCatalog, Joomla & phpBB community forums and more.

Sphinx currently supports:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• XML Pipe mechanism that allows indexing of XML data

Some features of Sphinx:

• high indexing speed (up to 10 MB/sec on modern CPUs)
• high search speed (avg query is under 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text collections)
• high scalability (up to 100 GB of text, upto 100 M documents on a single CPU)
• supports distributed searching (since v.0.9.6)
• supports phrase proximity ranking, providing good relevance
• supports any number of document fields (weights can be changed on the fly)
• supports different search modes ("match all", "match phrase" and "match any" as of v.0.9.5)

XML Flash galleries are very easy to use & update. When there is a flickr support too, than it is great as it will be totally automated.

Polaroid Gallery is a free flash gallery with splash effect that can get the image data from an XML file or a flickr account.

Pictures is automatically scaled, centered and smoothed when they are loaded. Splash loading effect is totally random, this makes the look of the gallery different every time it is loaded. Images can be dragged & dropped anywhere in the gallery.

Besides the image gallery SWF file, FLA source can be downloaded too.